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PARENTS FOR GROWN-UPS
Statistics
FOSTER CHILDREN
There are 437,000 children in fostercare
in the United States.
97% of these young adults will immediately enter into chronic poverty.
40% will be homeless within 18 months.
90% of foster children will experience severe trauma.
25% will attempt suicide.
71% of young women will be pregnant before their twenty-first birthday, with half of their children destined to be placed in the foster care system themselves.
81% of young men will become incarcerated.
PARENTLESS CHILDREN
There are 21 million children
in the United States being raised by single parents.
There are about 3.2 million paternal, maternal, or double orphans in the U.S.
Children from a mother-absent or father-absent home are also more likely to become depressed, have suicidal thoughts, anxiety, social withdrawals into adulthood.
Almost 10% of Black Children have one or both parents who are deceased. For White children, it's 3.3 %, Asian children it's 1.4% and Latino it's 4.2%.
Half (50.6%) of all Black children lived with one parent, compared with about one in five (21.8%) of White children.
SOCIAL WORKERS
Of the more than than 708,000 social workers in the United States, Around 65% of social workers find it difficult to balance their work and personal life due to burnout and stress. In a study, about 77% of social workers reported experiencing moderate to high levels of burnout. The average burnout rate among social workers is 40-50%.
Statistics have been derived from the following sources: Children's Law Center of California Pew Research Fostering Promises Crown Counseling
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